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to custom. The rector to procure bread and wine for all parishioners who are 

 communicants, on Good Friday and Easter Sunday at the parish church. The 

 rector has the sole power to nominate the twenty-four or sidesmen and clerk 

 for the parish according to custom." 



These tithes were commuted, so far as they related to the new 

 inclosures in the township of Undermillbeck, by an allotment of land 

 in value equal to one-eighth of all commons and waste lands inclosed 

 under the Act of 1813. 



The tithes in the township of Ambleside below Stock, and payable to 

 the rector of Windermere, were for " messuage and garden id., smoke 

 Jd., every cow calving for milk fd., every strip milk cow Jd., calves 

 for five calves 1/6, for six calves 3/-. Each plough id., every cast 

 of bees till five casts id. each cast, and if five casts 1/6, and six casts 

 3/-, Hens or fowls in lieu of eggs and chickens id. For five geese 

 half a goose. For six geese a whole goose. Each fowl id., the fifth 

 1/6, the sixth 3/-. For pigs if five pigs half a pig, if six a whole pig. 

 Every 10 lambs gd., that is to say, the first ^d., the fifth a^d., the sixth 

 2jd., and the last four lambs |d. each, which make up 1/6 per score." 



These tithes were commuted in 1843 for £14 on a rent charge 

 on certain fields below Stock. The tithes for com, hay and grain 

 and other field tithes, except the tithes of wool, were commuted at the 

 same time for an annual rent charge of £1 19s. 3jd., payable to the 

 rector of the parish. 



The tithes in the parish of Kendal were the most troublesome 

 to deal with, and it took all the tact and ingenuity of Wm. Blamire 

 and a special Act of ParUament before they were finally settled. 



It would appear that about the middle of the i6th century the 

 individual who then held the tithes of the parish of Kendal offered 

 to sell them and enfranchise the land ; the offer was accepted, and, 

 with the exception of a small modus called " tithe-meal-silver " to 

 show that tithe had been paid, the lands were free from tithes till 1824. 

 In this year the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, 

 discovered that the person who had sold the tithes was only a tenant, 

 and an action was started by them for the recovery of the tithes and 

 was defended for ten years by the landowners at a cost of some £20,000. 

 The number of writs issued by Mary Lambert and .A.nn Lambert as 

 lessees under the Master, Fellows and Scholars of Trinity College, 



